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BRIEF AND PARTIAL CHRONOLOGY OF

CUMULATIVE EFFECTS 'MILESTONES' PERTAINING
ESPECIALLY TO CALIFORNIA FORESTLANDS

1985 -- EPIC v. Johnson California Appelate Court Decision

1986 -- Paper presented at the California Watershed Management Conference,

November 1986, Sacramento, by Forest Geologist, Donald M. Haskins: "A Management
Model for Evaluating Cumulative Watershed Effects"

about 1991 -- CDF adopts cumulative effect process largely reliant on checklist;
Technical Addndum #2 says "no measurements required"

1994 -- Little Hoover Commission Report

1990s -- Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) watershed

assessments

1996 -- Addendum to Final Report to Congress of the Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project,
by K.M. Menning, D.C. Erman, K. N. Johnson, & J. Sessions: "Modeling Aquatic and
Riparian Systems, Assessing Cumulative Watershed Effects, and Limiting Watershed
Disturbance."

1996-1997 -- New Year's storms render Elk River and Freshwater, Bear Jordan, & Stitz
Creeks "especially significantly and cumulatively impacted by sediment" -- Stafford
suffers impacts of a large debris torrent

1999 -- "Keeley Report" regarding cumulative watershed impacts by Dr. Leslie M. Reid

1999 -- Scientific Review Panel Report (SRP Report): "The primary deficiency of the
FPRs is the lack of a watershed analysis approach capable of assessing cumulative effects
attributable to timber harvesting and other non-forestry activities on a watershed scale."

1999 -- Draft done for a "Watershed Conservation, Preservation, and Restoration (CPR)
Act"

2001 -- "A Scientific Basis for the Prediction of Cumulative Watershed Effects" ­­ 
University of California Wildland Resource Center Report No. 46.  ­­ The 
University of California Committee on Cumulative Watershed Effects (the Dunne 
Report)

2001  ­­  Interagency Watershed Analysis Team Pilot (IWAT) Project alternative 
approved by the Forest Stewardship Committee (or Working Group) which was 

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appointed by CDF Director Tuttle to develop incentives and relief for small 
forestland owners

2002 -- Paper presented at the Sierra Nevada Science Symposium, October 2002, Kings
Beach, California, by L.H. MacDonald, D. Coe and S. Litschert: "Assessing Cumulative
Watershed Effects in the Central Sierra Nevada: Hillslope Measurements and
Catchment-Scale Modeling"

2002 -- "Final Report on Sedimant Impairment and Effects on beneficial uses of the Elk
River and Stitz, Bear, Jordan and Freshwater Creeks" by the Humboldt Watersheds
Independent Scientific Review Panel under the auspices of the North Coast Regional
Water Quality Control Board

2003 -- Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between four Regional Water Quality

Control Boards and CDF regarding, among other things, cumulative impact assessment

2004 -- ‘Timber Recommendations’ for Coho Salmon Recovery adopted by the 
California Fish & Game Commission as part its adoption of the Coho Recovery 
Strategy ­­ includes cumulative effects and planning watershed­scale emphasis

2008  ­­  The Environmental Information Protection Center (EPIC) and the Sierra 
Club win a 10 year long legal battle with Pacific Lumber , CDF, and DF&G over 
the discredited invalid Sustained Yield Plan for PL ­­ California Supreme Court 
specifically states that cumulative effects should be considered, at minimum, on a 
planning watershed scale